No. IL
0. P. Q. tells us that the editor of the Morniny Chronicle was startled, and that the nerves of the proprietor of that journal were shaken, by his letter, ammoniciog, six or eight months before it hap- pened, the approach of the bust Revolution in France. Perhaps it is because our own nerves are somewhat tough, that we feel little ap- prehension at the startling announcement in our correspondent's Second Letter, that Frenchmen " are marching rapidly to a Restoration ; " or at may be, that the facts on which he bases his opinion do not appear to as in the same light as to him. We do not see that he makes out that -there is any national party for a Restoration. The Chambers are not national; neither are the 200,000 electors. The National Guards of Paris, being chiefly composed of shopkeepers, may think it their interest to join with the King and his Ministers in countenancing .opunons more favourable to ".social order," than the march of Liberty —to the policy of the Juste Milieu, than that of the July Revolution. These men may talk about the exiled dyoasty, but they will not, we think, incur the risk of overthrowing the existing one, for such a successor 53 HENRY the Fifth. This Louts Plume-knows ; and therefore, while he persecutes the Republicans, he considers the Carlists, and those who profess principles really Carlist, as harmless to his dynasty, and virtua?; sapporters of his system. Smelt are our notions ; but we admit that 0- Q. ahould know, much, better than we do, what is actualbff passing in France.
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